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What explains the growing gender education gap? : the effects of parental background, the labor market and the marriage market on college attainment
Eḳshṭain, Tsevi; Keane, Michael P.; Lifshitz, Osnat - 2023
In the 1960 cohort, American men and women graduated from college at the same rate, and this was true for Whites, Blacks and Hispanics. But in more recent cohorts, women graduate at much higher rates than men. To understand the emerging gender education gap, we formulate and estimate a model of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014429906
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A search model of unemployment and inflation
Lehmann, Etienne (contributor) - 2006
money growth leads to higher inflation and higher unemployment, so the long-run Phillips curve is not vertical. The optimal … monetary growth rate decreases with the workers' bargaining power, the level of unemployment benefits and the payroll tax rate …. -- inflation ; unemployment ; search-matching ; Friedman rule …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003344604
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Dynamic female labor supply
Eḳshṭain, Tsevi; Lifshitz, Osnat - 2009
The increase in female employment and participation rates is one of the most dramatic economic changes to have taken place during the last century. However, while the employment rate of married women more than doubled during the last fifty years, that of unmarried women remained almost constant....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003910297
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Beyond the labour income tax wedge : the unemployment-reducing effect of tax progressivity
Lehmann, Etienne; Lucifora, Claudio; Moriconi, Simone; … - 2014
suggest that a more progressive tax schedule reduces the unemployment rate and increases the employment rate. These findings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010379335
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Household interaction and the labor supply of married women
Eḳshṭain, Tsevi; Lifshitz, Osnat - 2012
Changing social norms, as reflected in the interactions between spouses, are hypothesized to affect the employment rates of married women. A model is built in order to estimate this effect, in which the employment of married men and women is the outcome of an internal household game. The type of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009679814
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A simple theory of optimal redistributive taxation with equilibrium unemployment
Hungerbühler, Mathias; Lehmann, Etienne; Parmentier, Alexis - 2010
We propose a canonical model of optimal nonlinear redistributive taxation with matching unemployment. In our model … efficient values, at the optimum gross wages and unemployment are lower. Average tax rates are moreover increasing in wages. The … robustness of these properties is also discussed. -- Optimal income taxation ; unemployment ; matching …
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On the optimality of search matching equilibrium when workers are risk averse
Lehmann, Etienne (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002093504